Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 62

I had head-ache and back-ache, and I cannot tell what aches besides.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, not tell, ache · To what, where: head ache, besides · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ache	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 head	punct
5	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ache	cc
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ache	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 back	punct
9	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ache	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 aches	nsubj
17	aches	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	ccomp
18	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 aches	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	I	head ache and back ache	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient
2	not tell speech: assert	can	I		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ache	present		besides	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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